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364:. Kruger publicly accepted Burgers's election and announced at his inauguration that "as a good republican", he submitted to the vote of the majority but had grave personal reservations regarding the new president. He particularly disliked Burgers's new education law, which restricted children's religious instruction to outside school hours, which was in Kruger's view an affront to God. That, coupled with the sickness of Gezina and their children with malaria, caused Kruger to lose interest in his office. In May 1873, he requested an honourable discharge from his post, which Burgers promptly granted. The office of commandant-general was abolished the following week. 313:
president and commandant-general. Schoeman was found guilty of rebellion against the state and banished. In May the election results were announced, with Van Rensburg becoming president and Kruger as commandant-general. Both expressed disappointment at the low turnout and resolved to hold another set of elections. Van Rensburg's opponent was now Pretorius, who had resigned his office in the Orange Free State and returned to the Transvaal. Turnout was higher, and on 12 October, the volksraad announced another Van Rensburg victory. Kruger was returned as commandant-general with a large majority. The civil war ended with Kruger's victory over
340:, which was under threat by the chief, Katlakter, Kruger and his officers resolved that holding the town was impossible and ordered a general evacuation, and Katlakter razed the town. The loss of Schoemansdal, once a prosperous settlement by Boer standards, was considered a great humiliation by many burghers. The Transvaal government formally exonerated Kruger over the matter by ruling that he had been forced to evacuate Schoemansdal by factors beyond his control, but some still argued that he had given the town up too readily. Peace returned to Zoutpansberg in 1869 after the intervention of the republic's 193: 150: 98: 2716: 139: 128: 117: 76: 182: 171: 162: 89: 333:, despite Kruger's attempts to maintain discipline. The following February, after a meeting of the Volksraad in Potchefstroom, Kruger capsized his cart during the journey home and broke his left leg. On one leg, he righted the cart and continued the rest of the way. The injury incapacitated him for the next nine months, and his left leg was thereafter slightly shorter than his right. 324:
The civil war led to an economic collapse in the Transvaal, weakening the government's ability to back up its professed authority and sovereignty over the local chiefdoms, though Lydenburg and Utrecht now accepted the central administration. By 1865 tensions had risen with the Zulus to the east and
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Schoeman mustered a commando at Potchefstroom but was routed by Kruger on the night of 9 October 1862. After Schoeman returned with a larger force Kruger and Pretorius held negotiations and agreed to hold a special court on the disturbances in January 1863 and soon thereafter fresh elections for
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on 10 September 1860 to choose between his two posts. To the surprise of his supporters and detractors, he resigned as President of the Transvaal and continued in the Free State. After Schoeman unsuccessfully attempted to use force to supplant Grobler as acting president, Kruger persuaded him to
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was appointed acting president while a new election was organised for October 1862. Having returned home, Kruger was surprised to receive a message urgently requesting his presence in the capital, the volksraad having recommended him as a suitable candidate. He replied that he was pleased to be
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war had broken out again between the Orange Free State and the Basotho. Pretorius and Kruger led a commando of about 1,000 men south to help the Free State. The Basotho were defeated and Moshoeshoe ceded some of his territory, but President
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summoned but his membership in the Dopper Church meant that he could not enter politics. Van Rensburg promptly had legislation passed to give equal political rights to members of all Reformed denominations.
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attempted to side-step the constitutional problems by granting Pretorius half-a-year of leave in the hope that a solution might come about, and the president duly left for Bloemfontein and appointed
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In 1867, Pretoria sent Kruger to restore law and order in Zoutpansberg. He had around 500 men but very low reserves of ammunition, and discipline in the ranks was poor. On reaching
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to be acting president in his absence. Pretorius was sworn in as President of the Free State on 8 February 1860 and sent a deputation to Pretoria to negotiate union the next day.
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on 5 January 1864. Elections were held yet again, and this time Pretorius defeated Van Rensburg. Kruger was re-elected as commandant-general with over two thirds of the vote.
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Kruger had owned Boekenhoutfontein since 1860. He retained Waterkloof as well, would own both properties for the rest of his life and would acquire and sell many others.
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of the Free State decided not to give any of the conquered land to the Transvaal burghers. The Transvaal men were scandalised and returned home
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and others in the Transvaal government disliked Pretorius's unconstitutional dual presidency and worried that Britain might declare the
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submit to a volksraad hearing, where Schoeman was censured and relieved of his post.
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The Doppers despised Burgers, denouncing him as "Godless"; some even called him the
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Davenport, T R H (2004). "Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus (1825–1904)".
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Kruger's preferred candidate, William Robinson, was decisively defeated by
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divided into numerous political factions. The war ended in 1864, when an
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Pretorius stepped down as President in November 1871. In the
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was a series of skirmishes during the early 1860s in the
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void if the republics joined. Pretorius was told by the
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living in the Transvaal as independent in 1854. The
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Index

South African Republic
Armistice
South African Republic
Republic of Zoutpansberg
Paul Kruger
Willem van Rensburg
Stephanus Schoeman
An elderly man with a white beard.
Stephanus Schoeman
A man of about 40 with a large dark beard. The thumb on his left hand is absent.
South African Republic
South African Republic
Gauteng
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
North West
South Africa
trekkers
Boers
armistice
karee
Brits
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
Orange Free State
Basotho
Volksraad
Johannes Hermanus Grobler
Paul Kruger
Sand River and
Orange River Conventions

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